There are fears it could become a circus pretty event the whole that night. Hello im christine would its good to have your company it was one of the worst attacks by is anonymous militants ever seen in 10 year now of course in the ruby has found 2 out of 3 men guilty for their roles in the 2013 assault on the westgate Shopping Mall the judge found that the 2 defendants mohamed and Saddam Hussein will stuff a conspired with and assisted for gunman from the Somali Militant Group alshabaab to carry out the attack a 3rd defended was acquitted on all charges at least 67 people died when the attackers opened fire at shoppers and then engaged in a 4 day standoff with Kenyan Security forces the government in which the gunmen were also killed but critics say the main perpetrators were able to escape. And for more on this story i am joined by this a bit of journalist John Allen Amel whos been covering this particular story for the media is welcome to news africa jon and just tell us a little bit more about what these men well on trial for. So the. Number of other suspects who were charged with conspiracy to commit a terrorist act assisting aiding and abetting terrorists and commission of a terrorist act to kenya that being the westgate see september the 21st 2017 and we 67 people that at least one believed to have been killed perhaps one of the most high profile terrorist attacks in the countrys history so its one thats had a lot of International Attention and john how is this verdict being received this much anticipated verdict. Well from what we can see in terms of the legal opinion as well as just Public Opinion its being received very positively the westgate of course left a stain on the conscience of kenya and security agencies because of the way it was handled but more importantly the it left a huge mark in terms of the lives of the people who were affected and of it into left who were killed on that day and westgate of course was a turning point in terms of the ramping up of the war against the arch of a number of plots it went to the police and there really is no love lost between members of the public and the arch about terrorism. And john well can you be able to now draw a line and of this tragedy. I dont think so the war against the out of are still ongoing in so mild yes especially along the very long and very porous border between kenya and somalia starting way up north in mind their own all it down to look cost. There have been many many attacks and many incursions that im have to get at least. At the various parts of the border right all that is going to you of course kenyan. Military Defense Forces are part. Of the Africa Mission in somalia who are fighting rightly fighting the out of both had been turned on in terms of the number of pax but one of the other the war is still ongoing right jan i do want to bring you back to to this specific attack in way skates because they cant government has always maintained that Security Forces killed to be attackers or the gunmen who stormed the mall but theres also always been doubts about that. And i think that all springs from the fact that the one nor bodies found that could be laid might be any evidence to let terrorists who made that stand in the more well or a number of reports that came out from the f. B. I. In 2014 added that there was the it did the attackers did make their last stand in the mall and there was no evidence that the escaped especially from the outset i would have celebrated that picture so in terms of it was a conspiracy theories that still out there and much earlier reporting and right including reporting that we had been apart suggested that they might have escaped but that right also is open to you know interpretation i see john you were talking about the fact that al shabaab remains a threat in kenya why is the government struggling to rein in these extremist groups. It is with any good deal of conflict. It is is in the manner in which these these these attackers are able to make these atrocities as they are the cover. Especially in the southernmost part of the border of the bony forest which allows them to come in and out and he died at various communities secondly there have been allegations that there has been some Community Support for the out of of on this american cycle of border and its really just been difficult to supplement them based on the amount of support that they are gonna. Come up 2011 on whats insightful not about the big factor and he also has quite a bit of local support for people who would agree and join the arch of up through the ages of 1011 all right thats jennas john Allen Hamilton thank you john. On a story is in cape town way a group of activists illegally occupying a mansion in an affluent suburb of the city they say they want to draw attention to the land and housing issues and court has ordered them to vacate the premises by thursday he krishna to paint a story. This is cam space one of cape towns most beautiful and exclusive neighborhoods houses here can easily cost several 1000000. 00 euros most president s why its 26 years after racial segregation and its not in the last month a queer activist collective booked the luxury holiday home for 3 nights and has been occupying it ever since. Is one of the supporters. Compared to where you live before is a big difference in the. City. I can complain about that. This is the best one ever. Known used to live in cape town speak just township he was often discriminated because of his Sexual Orientation including by his parents who kicked him out of their homes. Cape town is seen as the most liberal city on the continent like news articles labeled as the capital of africa even is that not the case because there are many different cape town. White kid turns. Where it can tongue into being a snake for you and be giving you a hint it is because. Weve been one of the 1st countries to process. The policy into the constitution like gay marriage etc you know like this this thing about you can be visible weve had pride but like with everything that comes with a caveat that even depending on which space youre depending on which class. Protected you are because of that and you kept on is that everything thats really i mean its inexcusable. And its linked to having the city. Down almost like nothing to reform they just this is a price to struggle for rights and Affordable Housing for the elderly bt community is now a metaphor the courts to decide the buildings owner who lives in europe has demanded the squatters leave immediately effectively this property was larger heres a picture from what the cause was with the reasons building went into the property this was done to member not that different. You can go into a property i think that you can stay in that property and under false pretenses the lawyer says the rule of law is at risk what such an illegal occupation is good result and chaos would ensue for the judge said he understands the course of the protests but does not agree with the means to be there for the protesters to leave the house by thursday or face eviction and the payment of all the good costs involved. The activists have so far refused to say whether they will leave or face the consequences of going to blow tens of thousands of muslims descended upon cynical as holy city tuba this week for the annual grand mogul pilgrimage thats a tradition in west africa that some fear could become a soup is pretty eventful call the 19 organizers are expecting 3 to 5000000 pilgrims this week despite the main ceremony on tuesday being canceled in efforts to lower the risk of coronavirus contagion of the events of being the streambed to avoid overcrowding. They have come in their thousands despite the penn demick every year the mughal pilgrimage can attract up to 3000000 people here in the city of tuba the ones that are here have been given clear instructions. What i worry we follow the guidelines which are given by the caliph that they are where mosques and queue up for prayers in an orderly manner. The mcgough pilgrimage is the 1st large scale gathering in senegal since the corona Virus Outbreak must hand and paperbacks for storing shoes are part of the measures being taken by social distancing is almost impossible. Yet when that thats not it it was a lot going up there lots of people here thats why were wearing gloves and masks all of us would be so we can heighten the Awareness Among people. Well about the disease is always here and were doing our best so it will pass down. The land borders in sinegal are still closed so only a few foreigners have come but still thousands are here that makes the authorities worried. That people here are going back to their home regions we feel well have more corona cases here and 2 buck but we will have to thoroughly analyze in the next 10 days the evolution of infection in all the regions of senegal because as you know people from all over the country have come for the pilgrimage. If the. Synagogue was among the 1st african countries to report covert 900 cases but so far it has been able to avoid the high death tolls the authorities here now hope that this will still be the case in the weeks following the market. And that is what ill be sure to check out our. The stories on dot com forward slash africa were also on facebook and on twitter we always interested to know what you think about the stories that we cover hale program and the stories that we should be covering see you next time about. My 1st boss was the sewing machine. Where i come from women their phones by this ocean for even something as simple as learning how to write a by side of those isnt. Since i was in the girl i wanted to have both eyes id lost my home but it took me years to the. Finally they gave up and went on buying young lives like this and returned because sewing machines sewing i suppose was more apt procreates for goods than rising and by. No i was only a child woman back home full of bones by their duties and social norms and informed them of old dead basic rights my name is the amount of the home and they were more ads to. Musicians and music fans are remembering the late great rocker Eddie Van Halen a man who were revolutionized the guitar. Together with his band van halen he made a dozen studio albums that influenced a generation Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on tuesday he was 65. Welcome to arts and culture van halen producer said he played with a complexity that rivaled but one thing is for sure Eddie Van Halen changed rock n roll forever and just a moment well see how the music world is paying tribute 1st a look back at his career. This was the band van highlands biggest hit jump from 1900 full. Length had a distinctive style with front man David Lee Roth splash boy and take on the rock gods and eddies iconic guitar solos. They appeal to people from all age groups eddie and his brother alex formed ben highland in the 1970 s. Younger fans dont even know we have 11 other records. With her if we get the pace of each one then decide which ones they want to buy. For the money because we want to. Buy em all. Both going and now its the death of his father on twitter he wrote my heart is broken and i dont think i will ever fully recover from this loss i love you so much paul. Van halen joined the band as its bass player in 2007 making it a real family business. Eddie van highland was born in amsterdam in 1955 but the family moved to los angeles in the early ninetys sixtys he started life as a musician on the piano but like to switch to sam visions to the top. Cut off and released their 1st album in 1978 it shot into the top 20 on the american billboard charts making it one of the most successful debuts of the decade. And highlands pioneering virtue or so guitar technique and him a place in ropes all the time alongside the likes of jimi hendrix and eric clapton. The band highland was the man who not only changed the top. Forever but touched deeply bulldoze i knew him. And were going to keep looking back at his legacy now with my colleague Michael Kruger mike how is van halen being remembered well maybe as a guitar genius as the right of the left hand of the devil oh yes of course in 2012 we just pull in the popular Music Magazine voted him. The greatest get up play all the time and seabirds his 1st he taught himself i think maybe we have a red guitar yeah really wrecked his guitar he set some call it frankenstein but i call it my baby he may not invented the 200 tapping but did it and he was the master of this lightning fast technique and rosalyn devil playing and introduced it to a mass audience and despite all of this in never want to play to read music but ever like to read music like no never and by the way his 1st cherries choiceful playing rock music with the drums but one day he came home and his big brother was sitting there at the drums and he said oh my god hes playing much better than i so ill take the guitar and the rest is history oh my gosh were so very for that happened now theres been a huge and really emotional outpouring were seeing coming in from other musicians what can you tell us about that its really overwhelming so many rock stars posted something we have just a few examples for that Lenny Kravitz he wrote the happen will be electric tonight and nikki sixx from the crew said you were the most out of rock guitar and his band my David Lee Roth posted just one sentence what a long great trip its been wow now senior David Lee Roth wasnt always with the band van halen he was on again off again there is a lot of turbulence. There over the years. They were. Stuck all the time even when he had problems even when there were problems with a Record Company even when some of the members were replaced. And especially singer David Lee Roths he left the band come back and left again but. Eddie van halen worked rarely with other musicians but when he did it was spectacular and we have a really good example Michael Jackson on the song beat it we all know it he wasnt even stratus it on the album and didnt appear in the back and here is a guitar that he can hear is guitar really make the song to his son. Michael kroger thank you so much for coming in studio to honor the van halen. And from a giant of rock n roll now to of literal giant well it was actually supposed to be an auction of impressionist and modern art except ben christies auction house threw in a giant t. Rex into the mix and big surprise it wasnt the picasso that got the highest price about auction it was the t. Rex who sold for almost 32000000. 00 and in other dinosaur news the release of the new drastic world film has been pushed back from next year to 2022 its another big blow to movie theaters after hollywood had already postponed the release of other blockbusters including batman. And the way this James Bond Film due to the coronavirus. Well thats enough dinosaurs for this arts and culture so how about some spies well right now the show museum in frankfurt is all about espionage but the exhibition we never sleep. Espionage is the stuff of great films but its also a real part of our world now more than ever with surveillance cameras darter profiling and our not so very social social media although no one calls that is to be an option and in the midst of all this data sharing and stealing theres a lot we never sleep at the show and out museum in frankfurt features works like this one by canadian Rodney Graham artist as a spy. I wouldnt say artists are spies but in a way their models operandi sometimes functions like those of us by sometimes they become they have to almost become spies for the Research LikeTrevor Paglen has photographed the u. S. National Security Agency by night from 50 kilometers away. Just Cornelia Shaima from the former east germany mines her own biography and the files to the east german informants compiled on their secret opposing them with i want to self portraits. The exhibition gives a lot of space to be an art form. And real spine devices like a tree trunk with a hidden camera. Can be put on secrets even an exploding wrench it does seem like something out of the film and speaking of films Hollywood Star had lamar was also an inventor who helped develop Frequency Hopping Technology now used in christian technology. Espionage both glamorous and dangerous and today the spy business is booming with countries trying to steal each others vaccine research. And sniffing out the secrets of life here in germany each week our reporter Rachel Stewart has the scoop this time shes demonstrating her strong stomach with a look at german cuisine now around 8 percent of people in germany are vegetarians but the average german eats 60 kilos of meat per year some even make meat sculptures. Yes. But its heyday back in the sixtys and seventys but the main ingredient that is still popular across its usually spread on. Seasons with. Topped off with some. Health and safety reasons it has to be eaten on the same day its. Just going to leave the meeting in germany is about much more than choosing between one sausage and another trip to the boat shows all of them. Can be a veritable adventure. Alongside the full spectrum of fresh. There are some more intriguing products for example. Ru pauls translates as blood sausage no prizes for guessing what the main ingredient. And you know what they. Do so you want me. To spend it in a. Book. But it was just like a best. Friend. To kids as a treat. Ive lived. As meat so what exactly is it. More than the. Goodies and its essentially fatty me grow. Round up baked into a loaf shape with a lovely brown crust in most areas of germany you can only pick order if it contains at least 5 percent but the very end of the cheese is absolutely not allowed to contain liver and certainly. Countries